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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Let's get into it. How you doing, Welcome to the nineties.

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Speaker 3: Good Messa sheffields nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell's eight z of the Nineties. Yeah, baby, everywhere

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Speaker 2: we're pulling about the nineties, going through the alphabet, we

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Speaker 2: land on the letter R. So we just malade Robbie

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Speaker 2: Williams for some great songs lined up this hour. We've

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Speaker 2: got to separate Robbie Williams and Ronan Keating. They're like

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Speaker 2: two powerful magnets. Have you ever seen them in the

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Speaker 2: same room. They never showed the same stage. They can't.

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Speaker 2: It's irresponsible on the radio show to put them back

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Speaker 2: in the wings. Oh, the letter are restaurants and home

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Speaker 2: video recording. Let's get into restaurants for the nineties. To me,

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Speaker 2: restaurants in the nineties, it was all about Pizza Hut.

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Speaker 2: I remember when Pizza Hut came to the town that

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Speaker 2: I grew up, and it was big news. It was

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Speaker 2: like Hollywood had come to town, right it was huge.

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Speaker 2: I went there for a birthday and my dad took

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Speaker 2: me there and I actually felt like I was on

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Speaker 2: in an America movie. It was such a big thing, right,

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Speaker 2: do remember the adverts hit the Hut. I couldn't believe

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Speaker 2: I was actually having the big sort pizza them was

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Speaker 2: that deep dish kind of Chicago style.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it was so deep now because we only ate

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Speaker 5: Pizza Hut as our main pizza when I was a kid,

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Speaker 5: I didn't know about thin pizza until my char later

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Speaker 5: on in life.

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Speaker 2: Thin crust. At first, I was suspiciously that they ripping

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Speaker 2: us off here pizza where it's all that heavy dough.

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Speaker 2: It's got no flavor whatsoever. And I remember actually going

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Speaker 2: on a date with a girlfriend to Pizza Hut to

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Speaker 2: impress her, because in the nineties you would do that.

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Speaker 2: If you're dating someone now and you go to Pizza Hut,

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Speaker 2: there's no second date, is there? You're like, you're down

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Speaker 2: on your luck. I went out with him. When do

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Speaker 2: you go Pizza Hut? I don't think he's doing very

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Speaker 2: well at the moment.

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Speaker 5: But the great thing about Pizza Hut in the nineties

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Speaker 5: were they're eating restaurants where you could go to the

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Speaker 5: self served desserve.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for like six barks. I were thinking, like how

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Speaker 2: they are they? Okay? This I can keep going on.

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Speaker 2: I've just been up for the fifth time.

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Speaker 5: This is the best date ever.

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Speaker 2: What are the restaurants when you think nineties, what does

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Speaker 2: it sum up to you?

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Speaker 5: I'm thinking of all of the all you can eat restaurants.

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Speaker 5: The other two that we went to were Sizzler and

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Speaker 5: Small Geese, And honestly we were as me and my

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Speaker 5: brother were so excited to get to the dessert bar

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Speaker 5: that were right.

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Speaker 2: It was like Christmas Eve, you know that white heat

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Speaker 2: excitement you get because it was a real tree.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you ran the soft serve machine yourself.

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Speaker 2: And you could go there first forget about first course.

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Speaker 5: No, well, my parents said you have to eat all

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Speaker 5: your dinner before you go, so like we would like

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Speaker 5: down pizza and then they get there's jelly cubes, yes,

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Speaker 5: soft serve or the sprinkles, the chocolates on top. It's

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Speaker 5: so sad that all you can eat restaurants through thing

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Speaker 5: in the past.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember as well. I wasn't until I was

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Speaker 2: well into being a grown up. I actually went to

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Speaker 2: a restaurant that had three courses. I was like, do

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Speaker 2: you that sound like a something called a starter? And

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Speaker 2: I was like, what's the starter for?

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Speaker 6: We all go like pigs to a trough y, we

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Speaker 6: eat what we want.

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Speaker 2: Starter should order and then even ordering dessert. That never

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Speaker 2: happened as a kid, I parents don't have the money

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Speaker 2: from me that my dad always gave this accuse. He

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Speaker 2: never when we got home. It's like here plenty times,

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Speaker 2: sort of watch TV, watch a big rush to get back.

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Speaker 2: Even now on the menu, when I see the kids

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Speaker 5: It's instinctive.

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Speaker 2: I already or desserve just raised that way. There was

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Speaker 2: the height of election. Can we can't have? That would

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Speaker 2: be financially ruined? Who's going to pay for it? Christian

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Speaker 2: Connell's show podcast Eighties of the nineties or the letter

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Speaker 2: are this hour we're talking about restaurants of the nineties.

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Speaker 2: Jack was talking about sizzlers. Now I just found this,

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Speaker 2: Well where too for lunch? I know where I want

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Speaker 2: to go for lunch. I don't want to spend a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of money, not fast food.

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Speaker 2: Fast food definitely not fast food. But I don't want

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Speaker 2: to spend a lot of time, So we're two for

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Speaker 2: lunch tomorrow. How about Paris, Paris for lunch.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to spend a lot of money.

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Speaker 2: Mistake seafood salad.

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Speaker 5: They said one too many times that it wasn't fast food,

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Speaker 5: which makes me think it was fast.

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Speaker 2: They were all marketed as that, weren't they fast food restaurants?

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Speaker 2: And then Pizza Hut. I'll have some pizza.

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Speaker 4: I want some pizza too.

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Speaker 2: And pasta, yeh, pasta, and have that a bit of

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Speaker 2: grain sellon on the side.

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Speaker 3: And there we'll actually dessert.

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Speaker 2: Do you want the works? The work? Well, the pizza, pasta,

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Speaker 2: salad and dessert. You can eat five ninety five at

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Speaker 2: lunch and seven ninety five for dinner. Yeah, the works

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Speaker 2: five ninety five or seven ninety five from Pizza Hut.

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Speaker 5: Those prices are unbeatable. Remember the works?

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Speaker 2: All right? No, four one four, one oh four to three.

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Speaker 2: Anything to do with the restaurants this morning, let's go

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Speaker 2: to Aaron. Good morning, Aaron, good mornings.

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Speaker 3: There you're going, I'm good.

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Speaker 2: Mate, welcome to the show. So restaurants in the nineties.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so Ba actually still has a we can eat pizza.

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Speaker 3: The decorder stains, the food, everything is all stains.

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Speaker 2: They're from the nineties.

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Speaker 3: Change from the nineties.

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Speaker 2: Barratt is full of yodi woldy, yoldy wody pizza.

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Speaker 6: We have to make a pilgrimage.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, that is amazing. We should hire a

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Speaker 2: coach and go with us and take some listeners as well.

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Speaker 2: Just to a pizza and then come back.

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Speaker 3: You can eat the whole lot.

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Speaker 2: And have you been there recently or just seen it?

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Speaker 3: Aaron, no bet two years ago?

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Speaker 2: Still what was the pizza like again?

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Speaker 3: Past Loco was still from the nineties.

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Speaker 2: Aaron, that's a great one. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 2: giving us a cool mate. Phil, Good morning Phil.

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Speaker 4: Here you go, good.

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Speaker 2: Phil and Phil restaurants. What have you got for us?

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Speaker 3: I used to go the Swagman Beck in the seventies

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Speaker 3: Inferantry Galley.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: That was a big, big, smallstboard place. But you had

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Speaker 3: to take your drinks right, so when orange juice was

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Speaker 3: like two dollars fifty, they're being a bit tight.

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Speaker 1: I used to get the oranges off the displays, taking

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Speaker 1: back the table, cut them in ap and squoze me orangehit.

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Speaker 2: Well we I mean, this feels like a story from past,

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Speaker 2: doesn't it. Yesterday we heard about taking a toaster on

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Speaker 2: holiday squeazy orange to save U two bucks.

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Speaker 4: Phil us a lot of money. Bag.

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Speaker 2: No it wasn't. It was two bucks. Feel you, my hero.

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Speaker 2: That is a great story. I'll send you place. Phil. Okay,

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Speaker 2: thank you. Let's say let's send him two dollars actually,

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Speaker 2: so we can shout himself and no jail on us.

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Speaker 4: Lance. Good morning, Lance, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good Lance. So restaurants, Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 4: On a day to a restaurant with a young lady

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Speaker 4: and that I was tacking to me meal and mishell

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Speaker 4: pulling in text thank goodness and get grasshopper in my cellar.

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Speaker 4: But we ended up getting the entire meal for free

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Speaker 2: Do you know what pretty good scam? If you just

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Speaker 2: brought some grasshoppers just chuck them in the salads, great

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Speaker 4: Yeah no, no, quietly, man of fight, They said, oh

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Speaker 4: they're just changed your cellar supplies.

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Speaker 2: Got your lads all right? Lance, Thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for cool might have you know sometimes you're getting pizza

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Speaker 2: based and you roll it really thin and he keep

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Speaker 2: That was Now producer Tom has got an amazing story

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Speaker 2: about You know, younger people might be listening right now, going, oh,

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Speaker 2: come on, you know it kin'd of been that exciting

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Speaker 2: to go to just a pizza restaurant in the nineties.

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Speaker 2: It really was. It was a big, big deal. It

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Speaker 2: was like Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 5: You had free access to the dessert bar. Can I

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Speaker 5: say that again? You ran the soft serve machine yourself?

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Speaker 2: Did you? Guys also find that it was very hard tooever,

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Speaker 2: had been to the new Chinese restaurant when I grew up.

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Speaker 2: My dad just went sounds weird. What do you mean

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Speaker 2: not fish and chips or Chinese fish and chips, But

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Speaker 2: it's fish and chips, Chinese fish and chips. What else

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Speaker 2: we could there be? Some Tom, please tell them about

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Speaker 2: how excited you got as an eight year old.

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Speaker 1: So I had my eighth birthday at the Pizza Hut

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Speaker 1: Oi you can eat at Saint Luke's and Auckland, New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: And it was me three mates, my best mate Dan Monroe,

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Speaker 1: and we basically went feral when we went in there.

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Speaker 2: You would do you ate someone? You're basically in Wonka's place.

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Speaker 1: It was a lord of the flies definitely. And and

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Speaker 1: I talked to my mum about this and she said

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Speaker 1: that when we had finished the mains tour, Dan Monroe

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Speaker 1: and I grabbed the full veggie pizza which no one

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Speaker 2: No one ever touched that veggie pizza. It was like

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Speaker 2: getting stale there during the day, wasn't it.

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Speaker 1: We stripped the veggie pizza of all the toppings, took

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Speaker 2: This is an outtake of Willy Wonka, right, And then

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Speaker 2: what happened you get thrown out?

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Speaker 1: Well, we tried to eat it all and then obviously

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Speaker 1: made ourselves violently sick and we were probably asked to les.

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Speaker 2: I've just seen there's a pizza hut, the nearest one

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Speaker 2: to us. Do you know there's actually quite a few

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Speaker 2: pizza It's still going.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but you go in there. They're the smallies. Don't

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Speaker 5: get tricked by what do you mean? You can't even

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Speaker 5: sit in They don't have tape takeaway, so they're just

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Speaker 5: for the delivery guys.

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Speaker 2: Seeing the one nearest restaurant. There's one in Pranz so

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Speaker 2: that's not Peter.

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Speaker 6: No, you get tricked, don't get your hotel.

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Speaker 2: They exist now as takeaways.

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Speaker 6: You can hear Peter Hut delivery. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Really, who orders pizza Hut and take away people?

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Speaker 3: Really?

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Speaker 2: I thought everyone just went Dominos or any of your

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Speaker 2: local ones. Peter stood just trying to mind. I'm happy

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Speaker 2: to buy everyone Friday a Pizza Hut takeaway. Peter, let's

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